A wave of anger erupted last week in the western coastal city of Sidi Barrani after a police officer shot and killed a resident, Hafeez Hawya Abd Rabbo. Ostensibly, as part of the routine ...

Fact File : Battle of Sidi Barrani. 9 December 1940 to 7 February 1941 Theatre: North Africa Location: Egypt and Cyrenaica (a province of Libya) Players: Allies: General Richard O'Connor's Western ...

Jan 1st 1941. Now that I can write legibly I'm putting down as accurately as I can remember an account of the Battle of Sidi Barrani-it is purely from the personal point of view.

Sidi Barrani (Saint Barrani), Mohamed Salah El-Azab, Cairo: Dar El-Shorouk, 2010. pp 203 “When my grandfather died for the first time, he owned nothing but a stick made of low-quality wood and a ...